After Sherman
Loft Film Fest 2022!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14 AT 7:30PM AND TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18 AT 2:30PM
General Admission: $12 | Loft Members: $10
Passes Not Accepted
One root of the word gospel means “good telling,” and in After Sherman, the good telling takes the form of a personal essay by multidisciplinary artist Jon-Sesrie Goff. Expressionistic in tone and encyclopedic in scope, the film explores a fragmented and tenuous history of land and legacy that reaches back to the slave trade and resonates through the present day. Questions of time and tragedy, of place and prejudice, reverberate in the film, and the filmmaker lends keen eyes and ears to the depiction of these inquiries through an ambitious palette of visual techniques and a complex sound design. As the filmmaker returns to his home state of South Carolina, we learn more about his Gullah heritage, and we also meet his contemplative father, Rev. Dr. Norvel Goff, Sr. This stirring, evocative film collects and preserves shared memory and interrogates a fraught history through home movies, ruminative narration, a vivid jazz score, and attentive cinematography that are knitted together as expertly as a Gullah fishing net. (Dir. by Jon Sesrie Goff, 2022, USA, 88 mins., Not Rated)
Other festivals: Full Frame, Tribeca, True/False
